Re: PDF file size redux

Greetings "PageStream Support&quot; < deron%40pagestream.org">deronpagestream.org>
On 22/08/2007 at 04:34 you wrote concerning
Re: [PageStreamSupport] PDF file size redux

Hi Deron

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PS> "PageStream does not (yet) downsample embedded bitmaps,&quot; you will have to
PS> do that by hand or rely on the postscript file/external ps->pdf
PS> converter process.

Would you explain what the quoted part of the sentence above means? Thanks and

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Cheers Don (Green Dragon)
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On Wednesday 22 August 2007, Don Ferguson wrote:
&gt; Greetings "PageStream Support&quot; < deron%40pagestream.org">deronpagestream.org>
> On 22/08/2007 at 04:34 you wrote concerning
> Re: [PageStreamSupport] PDF file size redux
&gt;
> Hi Deron
&gt;
>
> <<snip>>
> PS> "PageStream does not (yet) downsample embedded bitmaps,&quot; you will have
>; to PS> do that by hand or rely on the postscript file/external ps->pdf PS>
&gt; converter process.
>
>; Would you explain what the quoted part of the sentence above means? Thanks
&gt; and
>
> <<snip>>
>
&gt; Cheers Don (Green Dragon)

Option 1: by hand
For each image make sure that the image is no more than x DPI. So if you are
using a 600 dpi image but want a smaller file size drop the image to, say, 72
dpi. You can do this by resizing the image in a graphics editor. In the gimp
this is Scale Image.

Option 2: rely on the postscript conversion
Adobe Acrobat provides this sort of capability so you can configure it to
produce a PDF with graphics no more than x DPI. If you use Acrobat for making
PDFs from PageStream this works.

Tim Doty

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